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China in the hands of younger men. How v/ould 
Wilson Popenoe like to explore Southern China? 
He loves the warraer parts of the globe and 
might possihly do some excellent vrork in So. Asia. 
Another fellow, v/ho likes temperate cliraea better, 
could take Central, Western and Northern China. 
Well, I hope you will consider these thoughts, 
expressed here v/ith all seriousness and I expect to 
hear your well-considered opinion about it. 
Mr. Fairchild was away from the office v/hen this letter ar- 
rived (March 20, 1917), but the following reference is made 
to it in a letter Mr. Dorsett wrote Mr. Meyer on March p6, 
1917: 
Replying to your letter of February 10, 
1917,. we have not as yet received any cor- 
respondence whatever from Dr. Reinsch, our 
Minister at Peking, regarding your visit to 
him or from any one at the University of Wis- 
consin, regarding agricultural exploration 
work, 
I note what you have written regarding 
your present work and how you are feeling 
regarding it and the possibility of your re- 
turning in 1918. All I can say just now is: 
Don't do it. 
In a letter written in Peking on February 1?, 1917, the 
following paragraph occurs: 
I am sending tomorrov/ morning, via Dip- 
lomatic Pouch, one small tin case, v/ell 
soldered up and containing 33 small squares 
of old bean cheese. It is numbered XXV and 
the sample bears Mo. 144b. Mr. Morse again 
may be the right man to give it to. The 
quality is not as fine as that of sample 
125b, but, still, it is passable. There 
must be several kinds of this soft cheese 
here in this land and I'll be on the lookout 
for them v/hen traveling about. My inter- 
preter informs me that in summer time one 
has to keep this cheese perpetually under a 
layer of sesamy oil, otherwise maggots get 
in and eat it all up. 
December 31, 1917. 
